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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!enst!ulysse!wayne.enst.fr
- From: laroche@wayne.enst.fr (Jean Laroche )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Rebooting (was Re: help! /private/vm/swapfile 44MB. How to shrink it?)
- Message-ID: <2521@ulysse.enst.fr>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 07:32:06 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu>
- Sender: news@ulysse.enst.fr
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- In article <1992Sep8.171911.7619@reed.edu> horde@reed.edu (Mr. Heiji Horde)
- writes:
- > heh...what's really fun is when the NeXT gets SOOO frozen that you can't
- > break out either by hitting the power key or <cmd>-<cmd>-~. Then you
- > get to use the reset switch...you yank the cord out of the wall.
- > I like the reset switches on my DECs and MACs. They're much nicer than
- > having to cut off the power to the machine. But, hey, the NeXTs don't
- > seem to mind too much. And some of ours have been around since 0.9 with
- > only 2 reformats of their hard disks.
-
- There is an alternative to pulling the cord: Hard Reset:
- "Press the left Alternate and Command Keys and the numeric keypad * key."
-
- p. 155 of the network and system administration manual.
-
- J.Laroche
-